Sentence examples for subtle stories from inspiring English sources

In these subtle stories of hapless souls, destiny continually subverts plans for happiness.

These subtle stories are filled with characters whose plans for happiness are continually subverted by destiny.

Overromanticizing depression doesn't lead to "more interesting and subtle stories," because the truth of the illness has nothing romantic about it.

Reviewing the entries, Angus Wilson described Deborah's story, The Holly and the Ivy, as "brilliant and strange" and "one of the most subtle stories I have read in the last years".

One writer who proved an exception during this period was Lao Khamhom (Khamsing Srinawk), whose subtle stories about country folk, first published in a collection called Fa bo kan (1959; The Politician and Other Stories), often carry a more subversive message than is immediately apparent.

This is one of Andersen's more subtle stories, one in which he gently pits artifice against art, the wealthy and powerful against the poor and humble, doing it with a lightness of touch, and an elegance and economy of language, that his two retellers wisely leave alone.

Atmospheric, beautiful, a very subtle story of a peculiar haunting.

Karen keeps irritatingly gatecrashing what is, in her absence, a more subtle story.

It's a subtle story of ideological battle set against a backdrop of social change.

Corinne Demas's Thanksgiving, a subtle story of sibling bonds and betrayals, stood out for judges as this year's winner.

The resulting game is fast-paced and lean, propelling the action forward with a subtle story line that inattentive players might miss for the explosions.